On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Olwe Bottorff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:galanolwe@yahoo.com">galanolwe@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">I might be in the market for a tablet. Mainly, being able to lounge around with a tablet while working through that backlog of comp-sci theory PDFs is very tempting. ;-) What's the best for the Linux/GNU/OS fan? WWRMSD? What would RMS do/buy? I'd like it to run some form of Heaven (Emacs) and be able to do PDFs. Any other similarities to my Ubuntu 10.04 world would be welcome. </td>
</tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div><div> </div><div>I haven't tried it myself, but apparently it is possible to run Ubuntu on a Nook Color. Probably some others, too. The NC is a very hackable little device. Not insanely powerful, but not bad. </div>
<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.xda-developers.com/android/nook-color-gets-ubuntu/">http://www.xda-developers.com/android/nook-color-gets-ubuntu/</a></div><div>
You may want something more like a convertible laptop, though...I can't imagine Emacs would be pleasant to use on tablet keyboards I've used. </div>
<div>- Justin</div></div>